Is the there any security issue with this configuration?

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I need to connect to a TS server in a LAN from the Internet.
I think only i need to open two ports in the firewall and redirect them to
this server,also i should to enable 128 encription for this connections.

I this good? will i have a very big security hole?

Many thanks,

Eric

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Thanks Scoty i will do this,

Eric

"Scoty D" <scottyd007@hotmail.com> escribió en el mensaje
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> Hi,
> Yes this is a big nasty hole.
>
> At the very least you should setup a PPTP Virtual Private Netork. Any
> Win 2000 up machine can terminate this connection. But even Microsoft
> do not reccommend this these days as the encryption is not great. They
> reccomend using L2TP encryption VPN.
>
> Make your passwords very strong also. MS can these days handle a whole
> sentence as a password.
>
> Scotty